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Kahn-Trary Opinions

Irving Kahn not only can boast of being one of the oldest active investors on Wall Street, but also being among the few who sold stocks short before the 1929 Crash. At 96 years old, he still is chairman of Kahn Brothers, a New York investment management firm, which can point to some exceptional accomplishments of its own, notably that it is thriving in the current bear market. That owes much to hewing to the value precepts laid down by Kahn's friend and mentor, the late Benjamin Graham, who's considered the father of modern...